Academic Staff in the Group


Professor Dongbing Gu

Group member

School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex

Research interests: Distributed coordinated control of multi-robotic systems, distributed information fusion in wireless sensor networks and model predictive control of mobile robots, robot navigation.


Professor John Gan

Group member

School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex

Research interests: Brain-actuated robotic control, learning algorithms, neuro-fuzzy systems, computer vision, multimodal human-machine interfaces and information fusion.


Professor Klaus McDonald-Maier

Group member

School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex

Research interests: Embedded Systems and System-on-Chip (SoC) design, development support and technology to increase performance and reliability; Advanced computer architectures offering vast processing power for robotics, image processing and other real-time critical applications; Application of AI for real world problems and robot control.


Dr Adrian Clark

Group member

School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex

Research interests: Computer vision, virtual and augmented reality, genetic programming, remote sensing, unmanned autonomous vehicles (UAVs).


Dr Ali Kafash Hoshiar

Group member

School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex

Research interests: Soft robotics, swarm micro/nanorobotics, mechatronics systems for small scale robotics.

Dr Anirban Chowdhury

Group member

School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex

Research interests: Robotic exoskeleton based rehabilitative and assistive technologies.

Dr Dimitri Ognibene

Group member

School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex

Research interests: Principles underlying adaptive social behaviour, biological and artificial agents, physical (visual and multimodal) and virtual environments, social media and virtual reality.


Dr Jinya Su

Group member

School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex

Research interests: Intelligent Autonomous Systems, UAV remote sensing, Precision Agriculture, Applied Machine Learning, Control Engineering, Bayesian learning.


Dr John Woods

Group member

School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex

Research interests: Robotics and autonomous vehicles, robotic aviation.


Dr Liang Hu

Group member

School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex

Research interests: Safe Autonomy,Learning of Dynamic Systems, Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems.


Dr Shoaib Ehsan

Group member

School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex

Research interests: Computer Vision,robotics, Embedded Systems, Artificial Intelligence.


Dr Vishwanathan Mohan

Group member

School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex

Research interests: Cognitive robotics, computational neuroscience, industrial manufacturing.


Dr Xiaojun Zhai

Group member

School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex

Research interests: System-on-Chip (SoC) design, embedded system, embedded processor architectures, hardware acceleration.